Western cyclone., 1887-12-02
THE WHOLE THING n yt,r 81,

1H4 NHOLE THING II 4 NUT SUFrT
P'">ih9 OF KANSAS farm mortg9 Eea, the records
~" tnat while Kansas owes an farm MORTGAGES
o"oul S@oo'OOcOo0, Illinois owes owes 8. .O00 OOO
~, 1holana' S635,OOO,OOO; Iowa, 1861, 900 ONO;
NalchsaIi' SoO0,OCO,0O0; Wisconsin. S357. .OoO 600
ana ONO $l,127 0O0,000. SO that after all. Ka.
'a' - iot 80 heaVlly in debt as some OF her eu-
1lohs rivals are endeavouring to make it appear
- 40 true that Kansas is much the youngest State
named cut It il also true our farm lands are for
tnat very reason best ablest to carry their debt
ana that the proposition of our Indebtedness to
tue TOTAL indebtedness Of the States futaeratad il
much smaller and far less bnrdensome Our
lahos nave been mortgaged at about one-third
thelr minimum value, which those Of the States
referred to have been mortgaged at over one-half
OF their maximum value. Our farm lands mort
gagged at very low valuation at time when the
prices o. lands we're twenty per cent lower than at
present, and npon the basis of partially deyeoped
capabilities, without taking into account. to any
great extent, their futurc almost uhiinite, rro-
ouctlYe capabilities, our cons tantiy and rapidly
increasing home and foreign markets, the phe-
nominal increase Of our population, our annually
extended facilities for transportation. and the
inevitable certainty that for twenty-five yeara to
come their debt paying power will increase year
oy year, in proportion to their increased ana
more thorough civilization, supplemented by man
ulacIurlh5 INDUSTRIES ike the sorghum and beet
sugar. the salt and silk, the canning and lourine
the cotton and iron mills-eaCh and aI OF which
are sure to develop into profitable magnitude-gre
a much safer and more profitable investment for
capitalists than similar investments in th4
States east OF rs. Kansas rapid az ler growth
has keen, with u development simply marvellous
and an accumulation o% wealth within her bor
bcrs unprecedented has not even yet reached the
full cne-third of her magnificent possibilities
Her soil, rich and deep and strong has been bare.
ly scratched on the surface, and her great crops
have been grown by the most Indifferent kind of
husDandry, When once through agriculture shall
be the method Of her thousands upon thousands
or tarmers and ali her almost unlimited resources
are utilized, as they will be- as the State grows
older-for the next thirty years. ct least who can
estimate the results: Who can forecast her
enormous debt-paying capacity$ Kansas Will for
years to come be increasing her power Of liquida-
tion, White states like Ohio, Illinois Indiana
Iowa and Michigan will be decreasing theirs
The difference between Kansas and the other
States, in this and many other respects ie just the
difference between a vigorous young man. OF
splendid physique in perfect health, full OF en-
ergy and enterprise with GLORIOUS opportunities
and the money making faculty developed to the
highest degree, and an old man, whose useful
ness is largely past, whose ambition is gratiied,
and whose future is too limited for successful
endeayor. Kansas may owe $685., 600 on farm
mortgages, but this seemingly large indebtedness
is In about the same ratio to her ability to meet
ner Obligations that one is TO hundred. Ten
years from date timid investors who now enter
tain doubts Of our ability to pay our debts will
realize, more fully than possibly they do now how
groundless were their teara.-Atchison CHAMPION